SAE J1639 Automotive Nylons

This new capability for loading and delivery of Acrylonitrile by railcar, tanker truck and ISO container throughout North America complements Ascend’s previously existing barge and ship (export) delivery capability. Ascend is now proceeding with customer trials and deliveries throughout North America.

Michael P. Harold, Ph.D., the M.D. Anderson Professor and Department Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston, has named Soundar Ramchandran, the senior director of technology – chemicals at Ascend Performance Materials, to department’s advisory board.

Ascend Performance Materials has announced a new partnership with Channel Prime Alliance de Mexico, naming CPA de Mexico as a new distributor of its PA66 Vydyne® product line. Members of both companies’ sales and marketing teams will be available to discuss the collaboration at the Plastimagen Mexico conference November 18-21.

Ascend Performance Materials announced today that Lynn Crear has joined the board of directors of the Ascend Cares Foundation. Ascend Cares is the privately held non-profit foundation of Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC, a premium provider of high-quality chemicals, fibers and plastics. Crear is a business unit leader at the Ascend manufacturing plant in Alvin, Texas. She joined the company in 1998 as a manufacturing engineer at the Pensacola, Florida, plant, where she led adipic acid production. She holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Northwestern University.

Ascend Performance Materials recognized for its whole-health wellness program by Virgin Pulse Life Changers. These awards recognize and showcase companies that have changed their employees’ lives for good and made their companies better by making employee engagement, health, and well-being a priority.

Ascend's Michael Martin, total wellness director, talks about the importance of providing employees access to professional financial planners as part of the company's commitment to employees' financial wellness.

Malcolm O’Neal, Human Resources Vice President, shares news of Ascend’s efforts regarding the definition of the company’s brand as we turn five years old, as well as the importance of branding to the company moving forward.